Subj : Re: recommend good pwr'd usb
To   : Brian Rogers
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu May 13 2021 06:35 am

-=> Brian Rogers wrote to Ogg <=-

 -=> Ogg/Rmo70 wrote... <=-

 BR> Wow! I have 2 IBM R40 thinkpads which I just got new bios batteries
 BR> for. One is online for ham radio testing of my software on Fedora. Some
 BR> of those original ThinkPads just seem to go forever - although I need
 BR> cooling fans for both. Getting a tad noisy - probably dustballs <G>

The 4x series Thinkpads are easy to work on and easy to find parts on eBay - 
and the repair manuals are online showing you exactly how to 
disassemble/assemble them. I ran a T42 until just recently and had replaced 
the wrist wrest, trackpad and fan over the years.

If you're the least bit handy, you could open one up, blow the dust out of 
the fan and the heat sink assembly, remove the sink and replace the thermal 
grease on the CPU in about a half an hour. I fixed my noisy fan with a drop 
of 3-in-1 oil on the spindle and replaced the 10+ year old grease, and the 
fan ran less (and ran more quietly) as a result.

The R is the big, heavy desktop replacement model, isn't it? Huge power 
brick and a desktop-class CPU? That should be even easier to work on.


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